![]() ![]() Their gradual departure over the years has dealt a bruising blow to Mardin's viticulture traditions, pushing Aktas onto a tormented journey to realise his dream.īespectacled and sporting a hint of a beard, the 44-year-old says he received death threats when he first tried to get wine production rolling in 2009. ![]() ![]() Subjected to discrimination and violence, most of the Assyrians have either relocated to Istanbul or emigrated to the West, reducing their number from 700,000 during the Ottoman Empire to 15,000 across Turkey today. Only 3,000 or so Assyrians still live in the wider Mardin province, which is part of the historical Mesopotamia region where some archaeologists believe wine was invented 2,700 years ago. ![]()
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